(Tony Patton) Random number generation is a common programming endeavor, but many developers are unaware of the true nature of the random numbers generated by a system. Learn more about random numbers and how to use them in your .NET applications.

(Viji Sarathy) There has been a lot of talk about Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and how this new programming paradigm is going to revolutionize the way we develop software much like how Object Oriented Programming (OOP) did about 15 years ago. The AOP model allows a developer to implement in

(Roger Thornton) No one who works in IT today can escape the carnage wreaked by hackers. Worms and other exploits are increasingly designed to target specific vulnerabilities in software ranging from operating systems to business applications—and for that reason, attention is increasingly focused on

(Scott Mitchell) One of the many benefits of object-oriented programming is that it allows for reuse of logic. For example, classes can be created that contain a base level of functionality. These base classes can then be extended through inheritance to create new classes that encompass the function

(Vaibhav Shringarpure) Compliance mandates are getting increasingly complex. Global mergers and acquisitions as well as continuous new regulations make consistent compliance extremely difficult, costly and time-consuming. Non-compliance is unacceptable. It can lead to inappropriate financial acc

(piers7) This article describes a two-way databinding scheme for ASP.Net, which extends the built-in simple databinding support to allow for automatic updates back to the original datasource(s). The intent was to support a scheme that – like the built-in simple databinding – required no support from

(David Marco) Data is one of the most important assets in a corporation. In order for data to have value is must be delivered quickly, properly formatted, be concise, accurate and most importantly, understood. The meta data repository has become the key enabling technology that has allowed corpora

(Jesse Liberty) The .NET Framework provides two sets of standard interfaces for enumerating and comparing collections: the traditional (nontype-safe) and the new generic type-safe collections. This book focuses only on the new, type-safe collection interfaces as these are far preferable.

(Miguel A. Castro) MVC, or Model-View-Controller, is a design architecture that promotes separation among parts of an application, with particular focus on the presentation tier. The concept of MVC is inherent in the ASP.NET architecture. I’ll show you how to take advantage of that to provide sk

PHP comes with numerous functions for parsing and manipulating URLs and HTML documents. These functions make it possible to easily accomplish specialized tasks, such as turning text into HTML, reading script variables from a URL or sending HTTP directives to the user’s browser. The table in this